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Aug 3, 1492
The Discovery of America by Columbus
Date: 1492 (discovery)
Location: Americas
Participants: Christopher Columbus
Outcome: European exploration of the Americas -
Period: Aug 3, 1492 to
US History Timeline
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Settlement of Jamestown
Date: In Virgina 1607
- The governments, language, customs, beliefs and aspirations of these early Virginians are all part of the United States heritage today. -
The French and Indian War
Date: 1754 - 1763
Location: North America
Result: British Vitory
Territorial Changes: France cedes New France east of the Mississippi River to Great Britian, retaining Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and transfers Louisania to Spain. -
The Boston Tea Party
Date: December 16, 1773
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Causes: Tea Act
Goals: To protect British Parliament's tax on tea. "No taxation without represention!"
Methods: Throw the tea into the Boston Harbor
Result: Intolerable Act -
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
Date: April 19, 1775
Location: Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Concord
Result: Colonial victory, start of the American Revolutionary war -
The Declaration of Independence
Date: June - July 1776
Ratified: July 4, 1776
Author(s): Thomas Jefferson
Signatories: 56 delegates to the Continental congress
Purpose: To announce and explain separation from Great Britain -
The Battle of Yorktown
Date: September 28 - October 19, 1781
Location: Yorktown, Virginia
Result: Decisive Franco - American victory -
The Constitutional Convention
Date: May 25 - September 17, 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Also know as Philadelpia Convention, Federal Convention -
The invention of the cotton gin
Date: March 14, 1794
Invented by: Eli Whitney (1765 - 1825), in the United States -
The Alien and Sedition Acts
Date: Signed by President John Adams in 1798
Result: French Revolution -
The Louisiana Purchase
Date: April 30, 1803
It was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France. -
The War of 1812
Date: June 18, 1812 - February 18, 1815
Location: Eastern and Central North America, Atlantic and Pacific
Result: Status quo ante bellum: Military stalemate, defeate to Tecumseh's Confederacy -
The Missouri Compromise
Date: March 3, 1820
Why: To defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri -
Andrew Jackson’s Election
Date: October 31 - December 2, 1828
The United States presidential election of 1828 held from Friday October 31 to December 2, 1828, which made a re-match between President John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. -
The Trail of Tears
Date: May 16, 1836 - June 1, 1839
The Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. And the Cherokee people called this journey the "The Trail of Tears" because f its devastating effects. -
The Panic of 1837
Date: May 10, 1837
It's a financial crisis in the United States that lasted util the mid - 1840's. Everything went down, prices, profits, and wages while enemployment went up. -
The invention of the telegraph
Date: July 18, 1866
It is an eletrical telegraph developed and patented in the United States in 1837 by Samuel Morse. His assistant, Alfred Vail, developed Morse code. -
The Mexican-American War
Date: April 25, 1846 - February 2, 1848
Location: Texas, New Mexico, California; Northern central, and Easter Mexico; Mexico City
Result: Decisive American victory
Territorial Changes: Mexican Cession -
The Compromise of 1850
Date: January 29, 1850
It was an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. -
The Compromise of 1850
Date: January 29, 1850
It was an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South -
The Firing on Fort Sumter
Date: April 12, 1861 - April 1, 1861
Location: Charleston County, South Carolina
Result: Confederate victory, beginning of the American Civil War -
The Emancipation Proclamation
Date: January 1, 1863
It declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and hence forward shall be free." -
13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
Dates: Janurary 31, 1865; July 28, 1868; Janurary 30, 1870
The amendments were important implementing the recostruction of the American South after the war. -
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
Date: April 9, 1865
Location: Appromattox Court House, Virgina
Result: Decisive Union Victory; surrender of the Army of Northern Virgina -
Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination
Date: April 14, 1865 at 10:15 p.m.
Location: Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C.
Target: Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, William H. Seward
Attack Type: Political assassination - shootng - stabing
Weapons: Philadelphia Deringer pistol-dagger
Deaths: 1 (Abraham Lincoln)
Non-Fatal Injuries: 4
Perpetrators: John Wikes Booth and co - conspirators -
Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment
Date: February 24, 1868 (The house agreed to the articles of impeachment or March 2, 1868)
It was one of the most dramatic events in the political life during Reconstruction. -
The Organization of Standard Oil Trust
DateL Janurary 10, 1870
It was by John D Rockefeller as a corporation in Ohio and was the largest oil refiner in the woorld at that time. -
The invention of the electric light, telephone, and airplane
Dates: October 14, 1878, March 10, 1876
Light Bulb: Thomas Edison invented the light bulb by the end of 1880.
Telephone: Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876
Airplane: The Wright Brothers invented the airplane on December 17, 1903 -
The Pullman and Homestead Strikes
Date: July 6, 1892
Location: Homestead, Pennsylvania, United States
Result: Setback of workers' rights until the early 1930s when federal Government recognized labor unions -
The Spanish-American War
Date: April 25, 1898 - August 12, 1898
Location: Cuba and Puerto Rico (Caribbean), Phillipines and Guam (Asia - Pacific)
Result: American victory
Territorial Changes: Cuba relinquishes soveregenty over Cuba, cedes Puerto Rico and Guam and the Philippine islands to the United States for $20 million -
Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
He became the 26th President on September 14, 1901, and he won a 2nd term in 1904
